Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

  Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
Booker T. Washington

  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

  When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

  Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman

  People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage and determination.
John Luther

  Character is the firm foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
R. C. Samsel

  Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton

  Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

  Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

  To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru

  The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Abigail van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman)

  Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

  Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie